Hotel Rio Lancaster

Staff was really friendly and helpful with organizing my tour, breakfast was amazing, and hotel is on really good location! Good deal for walue!

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The location is perfect-frontline Copacabana, but also easy (5 minutes) walk to the metro. We paid for a superior room and got a great room- 10th floor beach view and huge room and balcony- perfect! Rooms like the whole hotel are rather old fashioned and you could say in need of modernisation, but they were modernised I’m sure the price would go up several fold. For us the location and price made it perfect!! We sat out at night reading, chatting etc on the balcony watching the comings and goings on the strip. We slept with the balcony doors open and listened to the roar of the ocean. Delightful! If you want modern chic decor it’s not for you but if you want spacious clean rooms in a perfect location at a really great price this hotel is for you! Bathroom was fine- again huge and adequate facilities but old fashioned- who cares?! Occasionally lacked hot water but fine most of the time.

The breakfast was great- a really good buffet spread with multiple cold options plus eggs, bacon and a sandwich toaster. Unfortunately the breakfast room is really cramped and not big enough for the number of guests. The great breakfast made this worse as people stayed quite a while enjoying the wide selection! It was hard to get a table and even harder to fight your way to the buffet!! It would be nice to have some social space- a bar and lounge area- this hotel has neither.